Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of corn beef.
Charlie, there’s one of Genny’s needlepoints in the kitchen, ‘Down with cornbeef pie.’
1986, James Clavell, Whirlwind (Asian Saga; 5), New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 8272 more examples
But lifting his hands to high heaven, he vociferously swore, / By his hopes of an increased household, and by the nine gods of yore, / If e’er in moment propitious, again he should strive to treat / The crowd then around him to fatten on tipple and meat, / Into a Chatham street café would be his judicious “steer,” / To fill them with cornbeef sandwiches, washed down by “schooners” of beer.
1884 May 24, John C. Gallagher, “The Banquet of King Lockardo”, in The Paper Trade Journal, volume XIII, number 21 (whole 525), New York, N.Y., page 247, column 2She stood in the kitchen now, regarding the well-browned cornbeef hash without enthusiasm, and then she turned off the light under the pan. Anyway, she was not hungry, and she hated to eat alone, and she was as bored with cornbeef hash as she was with cornbeef sandwiches and pizza pie.
[1964], E. V. Cunningham [pseudonym; Howard Fast], “The Prince”, in Shirley: An Entertainment, London: Andre Deutsch, →OCLC, page 53
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